An Excutive president is a president who exercises active executive power in a presidential system of government. Executive Presidents are active in day-to-day goverance of a nation, and are usually popularly elected.
They contrast with figurehead presidents, common in parliamentary systems of goverance, in which the President is appointed by parliament to serve symbolic, unpoliticial roles while the prime minister holds all relevant power.
The branch of the U.S. government that is composed of the president and all the individuals, agencies, and departments that report to the president, and that is responsible for administering and enforcing the laws that Congress passes.
The executive is the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law and running the day-to-day affairs of the government or state.
Along with the Prime Minister or executivePresident, the executive branch consists of the cabinet and the executive departments or ministries of the government.
As chief executive, the Presidentpresides over the cabinet and has responsibility for the management of the executive branch.
The President has the power to make treaties and to appoint ambassadors, U.S. officers, and judges of federal courts, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
The President makes an annual speech to a joint session of Congress on the state of the union.
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